Thursday, March 27, 2003
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Producing partners George Clooney (news) and Steven Soderbergh (news) have come aboard to produce "Tishomingo Blues," actor Don Cheadle (news)'s directing debut.
Originally set up at Britain's FilmFour, which left the film financing business in 2002, the Elmore Leonard adaptation would mark a Leonard reunion for the trio: Clooney and Cheadle appeared in 1998's "Out of Sight," based on the Leonard book of the same name and directed by Soderbergh.
Clooney and Soderbergh, through their WB-based Section Eight banner, and Cheadle have an established working relationship, with Cheadle appearing alongside Clooney in Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven."
With a script by John Richards ("Nurse Betty"), "Tishomingo Blues" follows a high diver at the Tishomingo Hotel & Casino in Mississippi who witnesses a Mafia murder and becomes entangled with a Detroit con artist.
Originally set up at Britain's FilmFour, which left the film financing business in 2002, the Elmore Leonard adaptation would mark a Leonard reunion for the trio: Clooney and Cheadle appeared in 1998's "Out of Sight," based on the Leonard book of the same name and directed by Soderbergh.
Clooney and Soderbergh, through their WB-based Section Eight banner, and Cheadle have an established working relationship, with Cheadle appearing alongside Clooney in Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven."
With a script by John Richards ("Nurse Betty"), "Tishomingo Blues" follows a high diver at the Tishomingo Hotel & Casino in Mississippi who witnesses a Mafia murder and becomes entangled with a Detroit con artist.
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